Inside the tiny Highland school with just two pupils | BBC Scotland News

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This is our school. This is where

school P6. I'm Shannon. I'm Molly. I'm

age nine and we are in D primary. My

name is Holly and I'm the class teacher

at Dur Primary School. We are in the

west coast of Scotland in the Highlands

and we're a uniquely small school with

just two pupils.

We're really close. We we mostly do

everything all together kind of every

day. Uh we play in school and after

school we're best friends. Best friends.

It is wonderful. Not many people get

this opportunity as a teacher and I

don't think everybody would like it, but

I absolutely love it. I love the

flexibility and the freedom for going

out and exploring. If the weather's

good, yeah, we can go and do our work

down at the beach. We don't have to stay

in the classroom.

Go here about once or twice a week. We

like to go down to the water after we're

done all of our lessons. We get to

do math, spelling, stories. We make up

our own stories.

We all sit down and eat lunch together.

It's a really special teacher pupil

relationship. You get to know them

really well. You don't just have them

for one year.

Miss Grace prints pictures out of us

that we've done and um she sticks us in

this big book that we have. We are

learning how to do CPR. That's our

friends that we had on Mark. That's when

we went to the beach and my wellie boots

nearly got swept away.

On paper, it's two children. In reality,

it's the whole community. We have so

many more children in the school

throughout the week with toddler group

and with our nurture group.

I think the fact that we have managed to

keep it open and keep it going shows

like what you can do with a small school

and why they're important not just as a

school but within the wider community.

We wanted this to stay open because

obviously I've been here for most of my

life. It's such a nice school and I

think people should really go here cuz

it's such a good school and I would

never want it to close. But not too many

people please.

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